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I attended a dance performance at Discovery Bay tonight called Picnic in the Park. It was a local fair with live dance and singing performances. They invited our dance school to do a 15 mins demonstration on the stage. We did the group bus stop line disco dance, Cha Cha Cha and Jive. It was a good time to promote our dance school. Our teacher asked us to grab some opposite sex audiences (it means male audiences, because most of us are girls lol) to get to the stage and do some Rumba Salsa in the end of the performance, however, we found almost no teenager/adult male audiences. The only audiences were kids. The kids were dancing like crazy. They enjoyed the show rather than anyone else in the park. Our teacher told us to distribute some flyers after the show, but not many people we could give to as many were kids. This event was like a western style activity in the public park, which we don’t usually have it in Hong Kong. I guess it only happens in Discovery Bay as most of residents are westerners in this place.

It was my first time to do a public performance, needless to say I screwed up almost all the dance patterns when I was doing solo. hahaa!! It wasn’t easy when you had thousands of people watching you. It was fun though, nothing serious and formal. My parents were watching me. They did have a good laugh of what I did. It was a mess anyway because the stage was too small for ten of us.

The major performers were assistants of our teacher. They won the international competition a month ago. They were doing great, of course!! Oh well, good dance technique requires lots of efforts and time as well as personal passion. You couldn’t do it good if you miss one of those elements. Talent is also one of the critical skills that lead you to be a good dance learner. My talent is limited but I enjoy it for fun and leisure. ^_^

We had barbecue buffet dinner by the pool in Marina Club after the show. The food was great. I ate a lot. I was starving after all the exercises. Everyone asked me how come I could eat so much. I am so thin in their eyes so they can’t imagine how come I could have so much food without weight gained. Oh well, I only know that I am natural born thin and all healthy. We danced non stop after the dinner in the open space. Some did Jive. Some did Rumba Salsa, Waltz and Cha Cha Cha. We did group dance too. We became the performers again of the night in the club. It was so enjoyable and fun. I love it!

I did more practice these two weeks due to the show, so I did have certain improvement, but still long way to go until the exam. BTW, the exam wil be held in May next year now. For some reasons, it had been delayed, but is good as I don’t think I am ready for it.

The buffet dinner by the pool….

Our group dance after dinner…

Our dance teacher was dancing in the dinning place. His assistants were performing in the show.

Hong Kong! Hong Kong!

Indonesia! Indonesia!

Oh dear! We found ourselves sitting in a wrong area among all the Indonesian. We just took the seats, but didn’t think that we should sit in the Hong Kong side. We found it until we heard everyone sitting around us shouting “Indonesia!” It was so funny. All the kids sat in front of us waving the Indonesian flags. The Indonesian visitors shouted a lot to support their team, but most of HK visitors remained silence. We were absolutely quiet until almost end of the competition some western teenagers started to shout “Hong Kong!” and tried to get the attention of HK team. My friend, Carrie, suddenly shouted “Don’t give up!” in Cantonese. hahaha! She was amazing! However, HK team lost to Indonesian team by 2 vs 4 the last session. They didn’t even try their best to get the score as we can see they were totally out of spirit. They probably thought they lost it anyway.

Oh well, I wasn’t interested in the competition much as I only accompanied my friends. I thought that it would be great to enjoy spring sunshine under such nice weather in Victoria Park. After the game, we went for a late lunch in Pokka Cafe. I had a big bowl of ramen. My God! They all are on diet. Three girls on the table didn’t eat much, and I was starving. Anyway, I had a very full meal. Their Ice Tiramisu coffee is very special, but I found it quite expensive for a cup of coffee. However, I had it for half price come with a set meal.

At night we had very nice dessert and drinks in a restaurant called something wine bar in Soho. I had a dark chocolate pie with Jack Daniel ice cream, which I have never tried it. It was really good, and sure I didn’t get drunk with that! lol

Anyway, I had a sunny cheerful day again!

All the masterpieces of this exhibition are from the Centre Pompidou, Paris. It’s specially organised by the Centre Pompidou with Hong Kong as its first and only exhibition venue in Asia. Most of them are Abstract paintings, and most I have seen them in Paris. One of the paintings is from George Braque ,which I remember it, very well as I was using his works for the reference of my Bursary work. I was looking at his books and pictures almost every single day for a year while I was doing my Bursary exam in N.Z. There were so many students at the exhibition that reminds me my past school days.

It was a fun night though I didn’t drink. There were drinking competition, singing competition, horn blowing competition of audiences for the whole night. Performers were non stop singing German folk songs, and being very entertaining. I was surprise those performers can sing Cantonese songs very well. Many people were doing table dance and chicken dance. Many women were drunk, and being very crazy to do their own performances on their seats and tables. It was lots of laugh and fun. The food was fine, but didn’t look so good as you can see from the picture. I really don’t like their bread. It looks like sausage. It tastes very salty. The lamb meat was fine, but the portion was large. The slice layer of lamb meat was up to 8cm high on plate. Typical German meal I would say!